07-01-2020, 12:59 PM
I don't umderstand your point. Do you think if someone you race with regularly makes the same mistake as someone you don't know, then the stranger is an idiot but the regular guy isn't?
If anything it's the opposite. Use your analogy as an example.
Let's say you drive a lot on the job and your colleague is always very safe at the pumps and always puts out his cigarette, except this one time he doesn't. You don't all of a sudden think he's an idiot, you assume he's distracted or something. And the same should apply to a stranger based on giving people the benefit of the doubt.
I mean if the first tome you meet someone they do something dumb, that doesn't mean they always do dumb thing! This is pretty simple logic.
On the other hand if that colleague regularly does dumb stuff then you can get to the poont where you justifiably consider him an idiot.
But when you jump to that conclusion about stangers right off the bat, it can very quickly grow into a negative outlook on the whole world. Which is why said you'd do yourself a disservice with that kind of cynicism.
If anything it's the opposite. Use your analogy as an example.
Let's say you drive a lot on the job and your colleague is always very safe at the pumps and always puts out his cigarette, except this one time he doesn't. You don't all of a sudden think he's an idiot, you assume he's distracted or something. And the same should apply to a stranger based on giving people the benefit of the doubt.
I mean if the first tome you meet someone they do something dumb, that doesn't mean they always do dumb thing! This is pretty simple logic.
On the other hand if that colleague regularly does dumb stuff then you can get to the poont where you justifiably consider him an idiot.
But when you jump to that conclusion about stangers right off the bat, it can very quickly grow into a negative outlook on the whole world. Which is why said you'd do yourself a disservice with that kind of cynicism.